Category: Human Rights

 A group of UN human rights experts appealed on Monday for Singapore to halt the execution of…

Preliminary evidence shows a widespread and systematic attack on civilians in Myanmar in the wake…

Some women and girls being recruited in Viet Nam to serve as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, are suffering…

Israel’s plan to build thousands of new homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West…

Human rights defenders in Afghanistan report that they are now enduring a “climate of fear”, threats, and becoming increasingly desperate over…

All parties involved in the escalating conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray must stop fighting immediately, or…

Effective action and strong leadership are essential to end child labour by 2025, the head…

In 2020 alone, according to UN cultural agency UNESCO, which works to protect media workers, 62 journalists were killed just…

Masami Ogata is a survivor of Minamata Disease, a debilitating illness caused by industrial mercury…

With mass civil protests against this week’s military coup planned for Saturday in Sudan, the UN Secretary-General has a simple message: “I urge the military to…

An independent UN expert on Thursday, strongly criticized countries which continue to boycott the 20-year-old Durban Declaration against racism, and called on them to recommit…

Victims of trafficking by terrorist groups are too often being punished instead of protected, a…

While women in Belarus overall are being denied rights and freedoms, female political activists are…

Independent UN human rights experts on Monday strongly condemned the decision by the Israeli Minister of Defence to designate six Palestinian human…

The crime of harbouring, in which victims of human trafficking are accommodated or forced to…

The number of children and women abducted in Haiti until the end of August already surpassed last year’s…

A 46-strong group of countries across the wider European region has agreed to establish a…

Israel has been urged to either release or charge five Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike in…

Sexual and reproductive health rights, are human rights, the independent UN expert on the right…

Although poverty and privilege “continue to reproduce themselves in vicious cycles”, it is possible to break the chain and shift the…

The finance industry’s demand for new sources of capital worldwide to satisfy investors, is having a serious negative impact on the…

Four children – three boys and a girl – were killed on Monday morning while…

State security forces in South Sudan have been responsible for imposing new and potentially arbitrary restrictions against the country’s most prominent civil society…

Over-compliance with United States-imposed sanctions against Iran is harming the right to health, and people with a rare skin disease are among…

Gender-based violence, hate speech and disinformation are being used extensively online and offline, to chill…

For the first time in two decades, extreme poverty is on the rise, the UN…

On 8 October, loud and unusual applause reverberated around the chamber of the UN Human…

For more than two years, a UN-appointed team of 59 people has been collecting and analyzing more than two million pieces of evidence about possible human rights violations in Myanmar.  …

Paraguay’s failure to prevent the toxic contamination of indigenous people’s traditional lands by commercial farming violates their rights and their sense of…

The arrest of Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and woman human rights defender Chow Hang-Tung, on…

A marked global gender gap in terms of internet use continues to grow, but from Syria to Costa Rica, girls are…

Two investigative journalists were awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, which UN Secretary-General…

COVID-19 has “laid bare deep structural inequalities” everywhere, further widening a multitude of gaps, both…

War crimes and crimes against humanity have likely been committed in Libya by all parties…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday called for a prompt, thorough, and effective…

A new Iraqi law to support Yazidi women survivors of crimes committed by ISIL terrorists, represents “a watershed moment” in addressing the wrongs committed against them and…

An “urgent” international response is needed to prevent the crisis in Myanmar from becoming a…

Vulnerable Haitian men, women and children on the move in the Americas, should not be…

Based on the core belief that “humanity is deeply interconnected” and “we are one”, the new performance piece, “King Clavé” is adding…

Allegations of reprisals and intimidation were documented against some 240 civil society members, activists and journalists, across 45 countries in the year…

Urgent support is needed for tens of thousands of missing migrant families who are often…

Nationally-owned solutions must be found for more than 55 million people displaced within their own…

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has caused and perpetuated “truly shocking” inequality that has affected the…

A decade of war in Syria has left more 350,200 people dead, High Commissioner Michelle…

Ensuring all Afghan girls can be educated must be “a zero condition” for the Taliban,…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday that she continues to be alarmed by…

As Haiti continues to reel from the “triple tragedy” of natural disasters, gang violence and…

South Sudan continues to be “plagued” by violence and corruption, the Human Rights Council heard…

Urgent action is needed to prevent the situation in Myanmar from escalating into a “full-blown…

The UN independent rights expert on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, told the…